In some ways, the story which prompted this post is nothing new. We have been helping sick children to die (even if one does not think of the fetus as a child) in the developed West for some time. The Groningen Protocol, which has been around for the better part of a decade, outlines with great specificity the circumstances in which the Read more
February 21, 2013 in News by Charles Camosy
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Marc and Eddy Verbessem were not terminally ill. They were not in any physical pain. The two Belgian brothers who were identical twins were born deaf and were beginning to go blind to a congenital form of glaucoma. They chose to end their life under Belgium’s euthanasia law which allows patients to take their life with doctor assistance if “the patient is Read more
January 19, 2013 in News by Beth Haile
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Here is a story about a Belgian couple who ‘couldn’t imagine living without each other’ and so asked for euthanasia together (hat tip to Wes Smith): You heard right, you don’t have to be terminally ill to get it…but why would you? When a culture presumes that one’s choices about one’s own life and body are entirely up the individual, who is Read more
April 1, 2011 in News by Charles Camosy
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